With all the talk of cleaning up the sport recently would it be a good time to discuss:
1. The severity of some 3 weeks tour routes (vuelta 2012) springs to mind and;
2. The number of days the average pro is racing per season (in recent years the season seems to be jan to November with a 1 month off season for some guys)
Surely if everyone is demanding a clean sport organisers have to consider whether they can justifiably treat riders as performing monkeys in the way they have done in recent years.
1. The severity of some 3 weeks tour routes (vuelta 2012) springs to mind and;
2. The number of days the average pro is racing per season (in recent years the season seems to be jan to November with a 1 month off season for some guys)
Surely if everyone is demanding a clean sport organisers have to consider whether they can justifiably treat riders as performing monkeys in the way they have done in recent years.